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What popular name was given to the British 8th Army in World War II?

posted Dec 5, 2016 by Rahul Chandel

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What name was given to the architectural style adopted in Britain from 1714 to 1820?

posted Dec 5, 2016 by anonymous

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In the 1700s, who would pay the postage fee for letters before the stamp was invented?

posted Dec 1, 2016 by Puneet Batra

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Over what country did the Safavid Dynasty rule from 1501 to 1722 CE?

posted Nov 28, 2016 by Anuradha Tabyal

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Who founded the city of Calcutta (present name Kolkata) and when was it founded?

posted Nov 24, 2016 by Prachi Sharma

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Who built the Qutab Minar and when was it built?

posted Nov 24, 2016 by Dilbagh

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What was the capital of the Portuguese empire from 1808 to 1815?

posted Nov 22, 2016 by Anil Chaurasiya

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Which capital city was nearly destroyed by earthquake in 1972?

posted Nov 22, 2016 by Anshika Utadi

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Why Muslim observe the Chehlum and when?

posted Nov 21, 2016 by anonymous

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Who was the first Peshwa and who were the last of Indian Maratha Empire of India?

posted Nov 20, 2016 by anonymous

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What island was occupied by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Goths, Saracens, Normans, and the Angevin, Hapsburg............

posted Nov 18, 2016 by Prithvi

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Which country flag design is the oldest in the world?

posted Nov 16, 2016 by anonymous

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What was the colloquial name given to women volunteers to the US Navy during the second world war?

posted Nov 16, 2016 by Sandeep Bedi

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Who was the first "first lady" of USA?

posted Nov 16, 2016 by anonymous

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In the fifth year of his reign the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV, or Amenophis, changed his name to what?

posted Nov 14, 2016 by Brijesh Talwar

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In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea?

posted Nov 14, 2016 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Who began the Song Dynasty? What was the original capital of the Song Dynasty?

posted Nov 12, 2016 by Manish Tiwari

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What was the former name of Sri Lanka?

posted Nov 11, 2016 by Karan Joglekar

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Which ruler was called the "Indian Napoleon"?

posted Nov 9, 2016 by Maninder Bath

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Who was the king of England who succeeded James I?

posted Nov 9, 2016 by Rahul Vaidya

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What name was given to the civil war in England during the reign of Stephen?

posted Nov 7, 2016 by Vishal

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What were the names of the Titanic's two sister ships which ended with the letters 'ic'?

posted Nov 4, 2016 by Abhishek Maheshwari

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Why Indian Army, Indian Airforce and Indian Navy salutes are different, what is the reasoning and history behind it?

posted Nov 2, 2016 by anonymous

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Who was the king or queen of England at the time of USA independence?

posted Nov 1, 2016 by anonymous

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What was special about "The Daily Courant" that appeared in the early 18th century?

posted Oct 21, 2016 by Samardeep Acharya

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What famous battle was fought at Pancenoit?

posted Oct 17, 2016 by Ritika

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How was the river Indus named thousands of years ago?

posted Oct 12, 2016 by Anil Chaurasiya

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Name the earliest calculator known to human beings?

posted Oct 12, 2016 by Akriti

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What Three Laws were formulated by Johannes Kepler in the early 1600s?

posted Oct 12, 2016 by Rajni

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When was the first rocket launched into space?

posted Oct 11, 2016 by anonymous

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What was the name of George Stephenson's first steam engine, which first ran on the Manchester and Liverpool Railway?

posted Oct 11, 2016 by Varun Kumar

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Which of these countries was officially neutral during both World War I and World War II?

posted Oct 7, 2016 by Sandeep Otari

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In which city did General Jodl, the German Chief of Staff, sign the surrender document on 7 May 1945, ending World......

posted Oct 6, 2016 by Ujjwal Mehra

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Who was Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during the occupation of Japan immediately following World War II?

posted Oct 5, 2016 by Amarvansh

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Who first used the term software and when?

posted Oct 3, 2016 by anonymous

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What was the tax that Akbar ruled out from Hindu pilgrimage?

posted Oct 2, 2016 by Shahsikant Dwivedi

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When the second war of panipath happened and between whom?

posted Oct 2, 2016 by Shahsikant Dwivedi

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When was the word Pakistan used first time and who coined this word?

posted Sep 30, 2016 by anonymous

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Founder of Mughal Dynasty Babar has written a autobiography what was its name?

posted Sep 28, 2016 by anonymous

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Who was the first INDIAN women astronaut who went into the space?

posted Sep 19, 2016 by anonymous

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Who was the first women astronaut who went into the space?

posted Sep 19, 2016 by anonymous

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What new name did Francis Drake give his ship the Pelican during his circumnavigation of the World?

posted Sep 14, 2016 by Debolina Charaborthy

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What name did Hitler want to give his so called 'Welthauptstadt' (world capital city)?

posted Sep 9, 2016 by Swati Tyagi

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In which liquid Alexander the Great was preserved in?

posted Sep 9, 2016 by Divya Shree

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The Yom Kippur War in 1973 was between Israel and which other forces?

posted Sep 8, 2016 by Chahat Sharma

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Which French city near the Mediterranean Sea, was an embarcation point for the 7th and 8th Crusades, and is now.........

posted Sep 8, 2016 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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What was the first alliance entered by the U S A in peacetime after World War II?

posted Sep 7, 2016 by Kuldeep Apte

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Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?

posted Sep 6, 2016 by Aarati Mahajan

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Which British journal of political and social satire was first published in June 1841?

posted Sep 1, 2016 by Prachi Sharma

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The Yakshas, Nagas and later Tamils are some of the early peoples of what modern country?

posted Aug 29, 2016 by Riteshwar